Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. New Living Translation He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. English Standard Version Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; Berean Standard Bible Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Berean Literal Bible Then He says to His disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the workmen are few. King James Bible Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; New King James Version Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. New American Standard Bible Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. NASB 1995 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. NASB 1977 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Legacy Standard Bible Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Amplified Bible Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is [indeed] plentiful, but the workers are few. Christian Standard Bible Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Holman Christian Standard Bible Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. American Standard Version Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Contemporary English Version He said to his disciples, "A large crop is in the fields, but there are only a few workers. English Revised Version Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. GOD'S WORD® Translation Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is large, but the workers are few. Good News Translation So he said to his disciples, "The harvest is large, but there are few workers to gather it in. International Standard Version Then he told his disciples, "The harvest is vast, but the workers are few. Majority Standard Bible Then He said to His disciples, ?The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. NET Bible Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. New Heart English Bible Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Webster's Bible Translation Then saith he to his disciples, The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Weymouth New Testament Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few; World English Bible Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionthen He says to His disciples, “The harvest indeed [is] abundant, but the workmen few; Berean Literal Bible Then He says to His disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the workmen are few. Young's Literal Translation then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; Smith's Literal Translation Then he says to his disciples, Truly the harvest much, but the laborers few. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThen he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Catholic Public Domain Version Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few. New American Bible Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; New Revised Standard Version Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleSo he said to his disciples, The harvest is great, and the laborers are few; Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, and the labourers are few.” NT Translations Anderson New TestamentThen he said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. Godbey New Testament Then He says to His disciples, Haweis New Testament Then said he to his disciples, The harvest indeed is abundant, but the labourers are few; Mace New Testament the harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few: Weymouth New Testament Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few; Worrell New Testament Then He saith to His disciples, Worsley New Testament upon which He saith to his disciples, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Lord of the Harvest…36When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”… Cross References Luke 10:2 And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest. John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. Matthew 13:38 The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. 1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 2 Corinthians 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness. Galatians 6:9 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. James 5:7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains. Revelation 14:15 Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.” Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!” Isaiah 55:10-11 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, / so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it. Jeremiah 8:20 “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.” Hosea 6:11 Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity. Joel 3:13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great. Amos 9:13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow. Treasury of Scripture Then said he to his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; The harvest. Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. but. Psalm 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. 1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. Jump to Previous Abundant Disciples Enough Few Grain Great Harvest Indeed Laborers Plenteous Plentiful Reapers Workers WorkmenJump to Next Abundant Disciples Enough Few Grain Great Harvest Indeed Laborers Plenteous Plentiful Reapers Workers WorkmenMatthew 9 1. Jesus heals a paralytic9. calls Matthew from the receipt of custom; 10. eats with tax collectors and sinners; 14. defends his disciples for not fasting; 20. cures the sick woman; 23. raises Jairus' daughter from death; 27. gives sight to two blind men; 32. heals a mute man possessed of a demon; 36. and has compassion on the multitude. Then He said to His disciples This phrase sets the scene for a direct communication from Jesus to His closest followers, the disciples. The Greek word for "disciples" is "μαθηταί" (mathētai), which means learners or students. This indicates a relationship of teaching and learning, where Jesus, as the Rabbi, imparts wisdom and guidance. Historically, discipleship in the Jewish context involved a close, personal relationship with the teacher, emphasizing not just the transfer of knowledge but the modeling of a way of life. This phrase underscores the importance of Jesus' teachings and the intimate relationship He had with His disciples. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few The harvest truly is plenteous.--This is the first occurrence in the record of the first three Gospels of the figure which was afterwards to be expanded in the two parables of the Sower and the Tares, and to reappear in the visions of the Apocalypse (Revelation 14:14-19). We find, however, from the Gospel of St. John--which here, as so often elsewhere, supplies missing links and the germs of thoughts afterwards developed--that it was not a new similitude in our Lord's teaching. Once before, among the alien Samaritans, He had seen the fields white as for the spiritual harvest of the souls of men, and had spoken of him that soweth and him that reapeth (John 4:35-36). Verses 37, 38. - The utterance is given word for word (except one transposition) at the beginning of the address to the seventy in Luke 10:2. But while serving there as an introduction to the rest of the speech, the reason for it is so much more self-evident here that St. Matthew seems to have recorded it in its original connexion. Our Lord himself, feeling the shepherdless condition of the people, desires to call out the interest of his disciples in it. He wants them to realize both the need of the people and the possibility that lay before the workmen. Changing the metaphor, he bids them pray him, who alone has the right and power, to send more workmen to reap these fields. Verse 37. - Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest - of human souls (John 4:35-38). Truly. So also the Revised Version; too strong a rendering of μέν. Is plenteous (cf. Matthew 10:23; Bengel), but the labourers are few. Who besides himself? John the Baptist, some who had been healed, e.g. the Gadarene demoniac (Mark 5:20, possibly also the blind men of ver. 31), and perhaps a few unknown true believers. Not the twelve, for these are evidently distinguished, and only to be included under the labourers spoken of in the end of the next verse. If, however, the utterance was originally spoken to the seventy (vide supra), the reference would be to the twelve.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek ThenΤότε (Tote) Adverb Strong's 5119: Then, at that time. From ho and hote; the when, i.e. At the time that. He said λέγει (legei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. to τοῖς (tois) Article - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. disciples, μαθηταῖς (mathētais) Noun - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 3101: A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil. “The Ὁ (Ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. harvest θερισμὸς (therismos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2326: Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. From therizo; reaping, i.e. The crop. [is] plentiful, πολύς (polys) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 4183: Much, many; often. but δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. the οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. workers ἐργάται (ergatai) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2040: A field-laborer; then: a laborer, workman in general. From ergon; a toiler; figuratively, a teacher. [are] few. ὀλίγοι (oligoi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3641: Puny; especially neuter somewhat. 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